Outcomes-Based Assessment The Reading Assessments
language, and specific references point and stimulus.”
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Pictures are good visual aid to present what the text about and to give the stimulus for the students in teaching
learning activities. It is stimulate the imagination of the students to explore their mind out from the class. It is important for the teacher to be creative to help the students
understand the text better. Some of English teacher prefer to use picture as one of their teaching technique,
it can be found from the book, handout, internet, etc. As the Jim Scriverner states on his book
“Pictures and pictures stories can be in a book or handout, drawn on the board or OHP, on flashcards, or on posters. Traditionally they have been used a
starting point for writing exercises, but they are also very useful for focusing on specific language points or as material for speaki
ng and listening activities”.
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Based on the explanation above, the writer concludes that pictures are good to be a media in teaching because it can attract students‟ attention by seeing the picture that
teacher used. Students can use their imagination and their mind. Therefore, the writer choose picture as a media in teaching reading of narrative text, in order to make the
students interesting while studying English and can stimulate the students ability just by seeing the picture.
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Kinds of Pictures
Marry Finnochiaro and Michael Bonomo borke down picture into three broad categories:
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a. Picture of individual person or object.
The example
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Andrew Wright, Pictures for Language Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press: 1989, p. 2.
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Jim Scrivener, Learning Teaching: A Guide Book for English Language Teacher Oxford: Macmillan Publishers Limited, p.334.
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Marry Finocchiaro Michael Bonomo, M.S. in Ed, The Foreign Language Learner: Guide for Teachers, New York: Regents Publishing Company, 2006, p. 164.
b. Picture of situation in which person are “doing something” with objects and in
which the relationship of object andor people can be seen.
c. A series of pictures six to ten on one chart. Picture series you may wish several
of these chart: for example, one for count nouns, one for mass nouns, one for and mass nouns placed at random.